Spanish Maquis

The Spanish Maquis were leftist and anti-Falange guerrillas from Spain who waged guerrilla warfare against Francisco Franco's fascist regime from 1939 into the 1960s and against Nazi Germany from 1940 to 1945. The Maquis, based in the forests of Spain and in France, fought against both fascist regimes, helping in liberating 17 towns in southwestern France from the Germans in 1944 during the liberation of France. The maquis consisted of former Frente Popular communists, socialists, and liberals, and they opposed the Francoist regime. The maquis ceased its activities during the 1960s after the government crushed the last remaining pockets of resistance left over from the Spanish Civil War.